Comparative Analysis of the Software Effort Estimation Models

Accurate software cost estimates are critical to both developers and customers. They can be used for generating request for proposals, contract negotiations, scheduling, monitoring and control. The exact relationship between the attributes of the effort estimation is difficult to establish. A neural network is good at discovering relationships and pattern in the data. So, in this paper a comparative analysis among existing Halstead Model, Walston-Felix Model, Bailey-Basili Model, Doty Model and Neural Network Based Model is performed. Neural Network has outperformed the other considered models. Hence, we proposed Neural Network system as a soft computing approach to model the effort estimation of the software systems.

Authors:

• Jaswinder Kaur
• Satwinder Singh
• Karanjeet Singh Kahlon

Keywords:

• Effort Estimation
• Neural Network
• Halstead Model
• Walston-Felix Model
• Bailey-Basili Model
• Doty Model.

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